1. Recent studies show that optimistic sports teams created more positive synergy and performed better than the pessimistic ones. Another study showed that pessimistic swimmers who were led to believe they’d done worse than they had, were prone to future poor performance. Optimistic swimmers didn’t have this vulnerability.

2. Optimists tend to experience less stress than pessimists or realists, because they believe in themselves and their abilities, so expect good things to happen. Negative events are seen as minor setbacks easily overcome, and positive events as evidence of good things to come.

3. If you're an optimist, negative events usually roll off your back, but positive events affirm your belief in yourself, your ability to make good things happen now and in the future, and in the goodness of life. Change negative, self-limiting thinking and replace it with more optimistic thought patterns.

4. Visualization is a skill athletes often use prior to competition to mentally rehearse every aspect of their event. New research suggests that just thinking about exercise can help maintain muscle strength.

5. In a study of 99 Harvard University students, those who were optimists at 25 were significantly healthier at ages 45 and 60. Other studies have linked a pessimistic style with higher rates of infectious disease, poor health, and earlier mortality.
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